What are the general offers at the Bergische Universität?

Funding programs: Numerous funding opportunities are available at BUW. BUW and numerous other scholarship providers offer study support, funding for dissertation projects and for stays abroad.

Copying and printing: You can copy and print documents at various locations in the library. For the stations you need a copy card, which you can get at the copy center. In addition, a coin-operated copier is also available there.

Sports/Health offerings: In addition to a wide range of sports, UniSport also has a diverse offering on the topic of health.

Language Teaching Institute (SLI): The Language Teaching Institute is a central institution of Bergische Universität Wuppertal that provides various services in the field of foreign and specialist languages. These include, among other things, the planning, organization and implementation of language courses and language examinations for all university employees as well as English-language translations for central areas of the university.

Study with child: Students who are becoming parents, or already are, can find some helpful information at the Family Office.

Workshops: The Central Student Advisory Service offers a wide range of workshops, such as "Learning in your studies" or "Taking your exams with composure". Intercultural workshops can prepare for the stay abroad or also facilitate the arrival in Germany.

Central Student Advisory Service (ZSB): The ZSB offers a comprehensive range of consulting services. These include: Academic advising, psychological advising, intercultural advising, subject advising, time and self-management, self-assessment, doubts about studying, studying with an impairment, scholarship advising, transition from study to work, and much more.

Who takes care of the students' concerns?

QSL

StuPa

General Student Committee (AStA): The General Student Committee is the executive body and the political representation of the approximately 23,000 students at the University of Wuppertal. It is elected by the student parliament (StuPa) for a period of one year and takes care of the students' concerns vis-à-vis the university management and the state government. It formulates the interests of the students towards the university management, the public and politic

Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG): BAföG is a state financial support for students and pupils in Germany. BAföG is intended to help ensure that everyone can complete an education regardless of their family's financial situation. The support is means-tested, which means that it is based on the income and assets of the applicant as well as the income of the spouse or parents.

Quality Representative for Studies and Teaching (QSL): The quality representatives of the faculty have the task to take up suggestions for improvement, proposals and criticisms from the students, to discuss them within the quality improvement committee and to involve them in the improvement of the quality in studying and teaching. Furthermore, students can also use the quality representatives as a confidential contact point for complaints and criticisms that could not be resolved with the lecturer or within the department.

Student Parliament (StuPa): The Student Parliament is the highest decision-making body of the student body of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. It is elected once a year by the students of the university and then meets to elect the chair and the financial officer of the General Student Committee (AStA), to appoint the committees of the student parliament and to decide on the budget of the student body. It also decides on fundamental matters of the student body and thus forms the most important mouthpiece for the interests of the student body at BUW.
The meetings of the StuPa are public and take place at regular intervals on the AStA level (ME 04) on the Grifflenberg campus. Interested students are always invited to attend these meetings and get involved.